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Henry Dunham’s THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK Gets A Taut, Suspenseful Trailer

Mass shootings are certainly a chilling subject matter. Far from being an escapist narrative in someways, leave it to writer and director Henry Dunham to scribe and craft together what aims to be worthwhile and intriguing thriller, tackling the issue with reverence and poise in RLJE Films’ The Standoff At Sparrow Creek. The film earned a fine round of reviews and responses from critics at this year’s TIFF. RLJE snatched the rights during its Toronto run and now the distro banner has rolled out its first trailer, host to a cast that lists James Badge Dale, Brian Geraghty, Patrick Fischler, Chris Mulkey, Happy Anderson and Robert Aramayo. After a mass shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force. Knowing the police will be closing in on them, Gannon quarantines his fellow militiamen in a remote […]

THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK Makes Its Last Stand At RLJE

Lee B. Golden III

The Toronto International Film Festival is underway and while screenings are running, deals are being made in the process. Writer and debut director Henry Dunham’s new film, The Standoff At Sparrow Creek is just one of them, now following its Midnight Madness premiere and with XYZ Films repping international sales. The word on Tuesday by way of a press announcement out of Toronto is that negotiations have unfolded in favor of RLJE Films in its acquisition of North American distribution rights. Release dates pending, the company is currently plotting to release the film nationally in theaters, as well as on VOD and Digital HD in early 2019. In The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, after a shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon (Dale) finds himself unwittingly forced out of retirement when he realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force. Understanding that […]

EFM 2017: Henry Dunham's MILITIA Casts Huston, Morgan And Ineson

Lee B. Golden III

XYZ Films is leading the charge this week at the EFM for their line-up, including Militia which is set to film later this year. The film takes its cues from Henry Dunham’s 2015 Black List script which has been described as an intense, violent and suspenseful character study in the vein of Heat, The Usual Suspects and Glengarry Glen Ross. Casting Jack Huston starring as “Gannon”, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as “Olsen” and Ralph Ineson in the role of “Morris”, the film tells of the aftermath of a police funeral shooting wherein a reclusive ex-cop and a militia man nab a suspected gunman and try to interrogate and press him for the truth before copycat attacks spark a nationwide war. The film will mark Dunham’s feature debut following the 2014 sci-fi short, The Awareness. Dunham via Deadline: He says “I wrote Militia years ago, before current events in society echoed the […]